The Daily Chord Weekly Recap – Friday, October 6

The week in music news was marked by the tragedy at a music festival in Las Vegas and the death of Tom Petty. The Daily Chord included coverage of these events and more. Stay up-to-date on news about music from a variety of perspectives, read The Daily Chord each weekday and subscribe to our email blast.

Monday, October 2

• Route 91 Harvest Festival shooting leaves at least 50 dead, 200 injured in largest mass shooting in US history
  Story from Billboard
• Marilyn Manson cancels nine shows after NYC stage injury
  Post from Rolling Stone
• Cedell Davis, bluesman who played guitar with a knife, dies at 91
  Obituary from NY Times
• My brilliant and troubled friend Lou Reed
  Book excerpt from The Guardian
• The Killers earn first no. 1 album
  Post from Pitchfork
• Lil Wayne won't go through security check, skips concert
  Post from Stereogum

Tuesday, October 3

• Tom Petty, staple of rock radio with the Heartbreakers, dies at 66
  Obituary from NY Times
• Concert security expert on what Las Vegas tragedy means for live-music industry
  Post from Variety
• Las Vegas shooting, no matter how horrific, won't bow music fans; we don't break like that
  Commentary from LA Times
• Microsoft axes Groove music service
  Post from BBC News
• Unbalancing act: How conferences perpetuate the music industry's gender parity crisis
  Post from Medium
• Tom Petty's 50 greatest songs
  List from Rolling Stone

Wednesday, October 4

• The Needle Drop pioneered music review vlogs. His lesser-known channel pandered to the alt-right
  Story from The Fader
• New music 'at risk' through music education 'neglect' in England
  Post from BBC News
• The iPhone didn't emerge from nothing. Here's what came before it
  Book excerpt from Wired
• An afternoon with one of Spotify's 'Badass Women,' a 20-year-old New Yorker with one pop-rock anthem
  Post from The Verge
• Women in sound: Addressing the music industry's gender gap
  Post from The Conversation
• Promoter Gabe Reed pleads guilty to wire fraud
  Post from Pollstar

Thursday, October 5

• Radiohead, Rage Against The Machine, Kate Bush lead 2018 rock hall nominations
  Post from Billboard
• Should women make their own pop music canon?
  Story from NY Times Magazine
• Tom Petty's final interview: There was supposed to have been so much more
  Interview from LA Times
• Google takes on Shazam with 'Now Playing' smartphone feature
  Item from Music Ally
• Look out America, The Jesus Lizard is back
  Interview from Noisey
• All five former presidents to participate in Oct. 21 hurricane relief concert
  Post from Variety

Friday, October 6

• Smart speakers are working their way into every home
  Post from Engadget
• Networks need to stop shaking down music composers
  Guest column from Variety
• Kamasi Washington on the music that made him a jazz colossus
  Post from Pitchfork
• Why cover and tribute bands in Dallas have it made, licensing be damned
  Story from Dallas Observer
• Why Terence Trent D'Arby became Sananda Maitreya: 'It was that or death'
  Profile from The Guardian
• The Pixel's missing headphone jack proves Apple was right
  Post from The Verge